Despite the scandal, Cong Vinh still pockets billions!

In less than a month, Le Cong Vinh has continuously made waves in public opinion with behind-the-scenes scandals. But so what, he still keeps pocketing money?!

Under the new national team coach Nguyen Huu Thang, Cong Vinh was entrusted with the captain's armband. Not letting down his "senior", CV9 made his mark with a hat-trick in a friendly match that won Than Quang Ninh 4-0. Then, in the official match against Taiwan (China), Cong Vinh also scored a "double" in a convincing 4-1 victory. And with such contributions at the age of 31, Cong Vinh deserves to be praised. Unfortunately...

A series of scandals behind the scenes came together, making Cong Vinh's image much worse. First were the "big" comments about his teammate Anh Duc in front of the media (recently Cong Vinh spoke up to deny and wanted the press to find the recording to see if there was any part where he mentioned the two words "Anh Duc"). Next was the very rude elbow to an Iraqi player in the match where Vietnam lost 0-1. And most recently was the story of not immediately returning to Binh Duong but going to Thailand to film a commercial.

Moving from SLNA to Hanoi T&T then to Hanoi, back to SLNA and currently playing for Binh Duong, Cong Vinh has pocketed about 30 billion VND. Photo: IT

The hidden details in Vinh's "commercial filming" story are only clear to himself and the leaders of the Thu Dau Mot football team. There is only one thing that is clear: if Vinh does not film the commercial as per the contract signed with the partner, he will be in trouble because of... Money. Specifically, he will have to pay compensation of up to 2.5 billion VND. With such a large compensation amount, in the hypothesis that Binh Duong's leaders do not sympathize and are determined not to let Vinh take time off, then he will... just take time off! Especially as Cong Vinh himself affirmed in a newspaper, in the labor contract he signs with any club, there is a clause allowing him to take at least 7 days off a year for important personal matters!

For someone with as much experience as Vinh, it is difficult for any team to make things difficult for him in terms of reason and law! If Binh Duong now wants to “lock” Cong Vinh for something, they should “open” up and see what Cong Vinh has experienced with businessmen and well-known businessmen in the past!

At the end of V.League 2008, when everyone believed that Cong Vinh would leave his hometown team SLNA to join The Cong, he suddenly "turned the tables" and went to... Hanoi T&T. Vinh's 3-year contract with the capital team was worth more than 7 billion VND at that time, an unimaginable number!

After 3 seasons of loyalty to Mr. Hien, at the end of V.League 2011, once again the "whole village" was sure that Vinh would renew his contract with Hanoi T&T. After all, Vinh had expressed his almost absolute love for Hanoi T&T. Then there were the touching stories when Hanoi T&T was always by his side during the time when he was injured and thought he could not regain his peak form. However, a surprising ending came once again when Cong Vinh "loved" Mr. Kien more than Mr. Hien. When Hanoi T&T was preparing to hold a press conference to renew Cong Vinh's contract, on October 10, 2011, he decided to come to Hanoi with a 3-year contract for a "huge" amount of money, heard to be around 13 billion VND.

Cong Vinh's consecutive "turns of the table" put him in a difficult position after Mr. Kien got into trouble with the law, Hanoi FC disbanded after the end of V.League 2012. In addition, Vinh's performance at the AFF Cup 2012 was extremely bad, the Vietnamese team under coach Phan Thanh Hung was eliminated right after the group stage. But if anyone thought CV9 would be unemployed, they were wrong! Before V.League 2013, he returned to SLNA with a 2-year contract worth an estimated 2 billion. Talking about the decision to "reach out" to Cong Vinh, Mr. Nguyen Hong Thanh - General Director of SLNA Football Joint Stock Company at that time laughed and said: "After all, the homeland is still a bunch of sweet star fruit!"

After 2 years with SLNA, including a period of time being loaned to Consadole Sapporo to play in J.League 2, returning home, CV9's value increased... increased. Especially when he played quite impressively at the AFF Cup 2014 under coach Miura. Before the V.League 2015, Vinh returned to Binh Duong with a 3-year contract worth about 8 billion VND. Despite the fact that the Technical Director, whose real power was coach Le Thuy Hai, openly expressed his dissatisfaction, Vinh still stayed, and the one who had to leave was... Mr. Hai "lo".

That's it, in just 6 years, from the time Vinh signed a contract with Hanoi T&T until the time he signed with Binh Duong, he pocketed about 30 billion VND in transfer fees. Of course, Vinh still has to serve Binh Duong until the end of the 2017 season. But with the developments in recent times, it is not impossible that in V.League 2017, or even closer, in the second leg of V.League 2016, Vinh will wear the shirt of another team that is willing to spend a lot of money! Here, once again, Vinh is "holding the handle"! The more Binh Duong leaders are bored with him, the more Vinh will "rejoice in his heart" (?!)

According to Dan Viet